Red Sky in the Morning
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TextPublication details: . Macmillan Children's Books 2016Description: 272pISBN: 978-1509802937Subject(s): Bereavement | Brothers and sisters | Children with disabilities | Children's fiction | Commended for the CILIP Carneige Medal | English fiction | Hydrocephalus | People with disabilities | People with mental disabilities | AwardDDC classification: 823 Summary: Twelve-year-old Anna is looking forward to the birth of her baby brother. Ben arrives, but is disabled and will never be like other children. Anna loves him with her whole heart, but she finds herself unable to admit the truth of Ben's condition to her school friends. Eventually the truth gets out and leads not to the ridicule Anna expected, but to sympathy and understanding. An emotional and wonderfully written story by Elizabeth Laird, Red Sky in the Morning was Highly Commended for the Carnegie Medal. A wonderfully moving story
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Twelve-year-old Anna is looking forward to the birth of her baby brother. Ben arrives, but is disabled and will never be like other children. Anna loves him with her whole heart, but she finds herself unable to admit the truth of Ben's condition to her school friends. Eventually the truth gets out and leads not to the ridicule Anna expected, but to sympathy and understanding. An emotional and wonderfully written story by Elizabeth Laird, Red Sky in the Morning was Highly Commended for the Carnegie Medal. A wonderfully moving story
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